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The conventional wisdom is that the job of director has gotten a lot harder since the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley (Sarbanes-Oxley news) in 2002. It's not really seen as a junket job the way it once... Read more...

Does Jamie Dimon's status as the go-to guy for financial regulators confer any benefits? That's what one pundit--who has taken a look at JPMorgan restricted stock grants--wonders: "An interesting... Read more...

The SEC's recent guidance on accounting for stock options grants makes clear that you should not play fast and loose with measurement date issues. When all is said and done, the measurement date... Read more...

Get used to this guy, he might well outlast you. Former banker and Fed governor Mark Olson has been named as the chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. If all goes well, he... Read more...

This is hardly surprising: Perhaps as early as next month, the Securities and Exchange Commission will issue guidance about the dating of options grants. Obviously, this is a huge issue right now... Read more...

The unrolling scandal involving backdating--or spring-loading--of options granted to executives has veered, somewhat predictably, towards the auditors. Apparently, the SEC and others are taking a... Read more...